Natural And Holistic Cat Food - A Healthy Feline Diet

Processed and tinned cat food is a very recent phenomenon. Up until just a few decades ago, owners simply gave their cats some of what they were eating themselves or fed them scraps, and sometimes owners fed their cats fresh meat and fish, preferring to give a cat what they believed was a more natural diet.

The years following the Second World War saw huge social development and a radical change in lifestyle. People wanted labour saving devices and quickly prepared meals. Once tinned cat food was available it revolutionized the feline diet across the country and it became accepted practice to feed processed, ready-prepared, handy tins of cooked meat to the pet cat.

However many veterinary experts believe that giving cats food that has been so highly processed has led to an increase in the frequency of feline diseases such as obesity, heart disease, cancers and allergies, and that cats were not meant to eat cooked food or live solely on a diet of dried processed biscuits and meat bulked out with grain.

As a consequence there has been an emergence of natural cat food regimes and many cat owners are no longer willing to see a cat feed on what they believe may be harmful to their health and fitness. Veterinary approved science diets are becoming more popular and some manufacturers are producing vegetarian cat food products which include plant-sourced supplements to replace those found in meat, in response to the Vegetarian Society's concerns that cats were missing essential nutrients such as taurine when fed a meatless diet.

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Homeopathy and natural therapies are being incorporated into veterinary practice on a wide-scale basis, which gives veterinary staff the opportunity to treat cats holistically, assess the problems caused by incorrect feeding and to educate the public on correct nutrition. They can prescribe hypoallergenic cat food to ease a cat's resistance to particular additives and ingredients, diabetic diets to help obese cats who can no longer utilize their insulin, and other such diet plans to suit an individual cat and its particular dietary needs.

As an incentive for the public to explore the possibilities of feeding their cats natural diets, you will often find that manufacturers are offering cat food coupons on their company websites for trial offers, and are very keen to attract interest in and communication about this change in the way cats are fed and cared for.

As a last note, if you are thinking of changing your cat's diet, it is worth trying to make the switch overnight rather than risk the cat refusing it in favor of the previous one, and maybe fast your cat for a day or so before hand.

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